THE INTERVIEW: Yuresh Maharaj’s balancing act at the centre of Standard Bank’s insurance ambitions

Yuresh Maharaj’s day does not begin with markets, emails or the machinery of a financial services group. It begins, more prosaically and perhaps more revealingly, with his children. For the man tasked with leading Liberty while also running Standard Bank Group’s Insurance and Asset Management business unit, that domestic opening note says something about the discipline required to hold two large executive realities in the same pair of hands: one rooted in the Liberty brand and another embedded in the broader Standard Bank machine.

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